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Article: Death at sea. (Navy investigation of Clayton Hartwig and explosion on U.S.S. Iowa)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- April 23, 1990
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In a modest, white-clapboard house on a narrow street in blue-collar West cleveland is a garret bedroom.
It belonged to Gu8nner's Mate Clayton Hartwig, one of 47 sailors who died in the gun-turret explosion last April 19 aboard the battleship USS Iowa. clarly, the room was furnished by a young man who dreamed of serving in the Navy. On its shelves are the ship models Hartwig built as a child. On its walls hang certificates awarded for equator and Arctic Circle crossings and a Navy sword. And there are three small bookcases packed with books on World War II and the Civil and Vietnam wars and Navy ships and planes.
Yet in this room, two Navy invetigators ...